# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/barbara-fredrickson
# Generated: 2026-08-13T07:43:05.526Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/barbara-fredrickson"
name: "Barbara Fredrickson"
slug: "barbara-fredrickson"
description: "Barbara Lee Fredrickson is an American professor in the department of psychology at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, where she is the Kenan Distinguished Professor of Psychology. She is also the Principal Investigator of the Positive Emotions and Psychophysiology Lab (PEPLab) at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill."
tagline: "American psychology professor"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Barbara_Fredrickson_2019.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "female"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Academics"
  slug: "academics"
profileType:
  name: "Academic"
  slug: "academic"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1964-06-15"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
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  momentum:             3.127962085308057
  historical:           6.171061333333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     39.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "芭芭拉·弗雷德里克森"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Barbara Fredrickson"
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    title: "Barbara Fredrickson"
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    title: "باربارا فردریکسون"
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    title: "Barbara Fredrickson"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump